Teaching Mindfulness to Adult Prisoners - July 15-16
Our good friend Jacques Verduin, the founder of the Insight Prison Project and the director of Insight Out, is teaching a two-day training intensive which will focus on developing skills and acquiring techniques in teaching and facilitating mindfulness meditation to prisoners. The training will guide participants in how to inspire others to commit to a transformational process that enables a person to effectively “leave prison before getting out.”
The Initiative
This training is an aspect of a larger initiative launched to grow a network of prison meditation groups in California. This initiative locates sitting groups that are within driving distance to our state prisons. Volunteers will be trained in facilitating weekly instruction/practice sessions and daylong retreats inside California’s prisons.
We are looking for volunteers and for financial support from practitioners who value their meditation practice in such a way that they are inspired to make it available to those who otherwise might never gain access to it.
The Training: “Sitting in the Fire”
The two-day training includes a site visit to San Quentin (circumstances permitting) wherein selected prisoners will engage us in dialogue and show us what they’ve learned in recognizing their true nature.
The training is suitable for chaplains, social workers, therapists, meditators, mediators and anyone else committed to keepin’ it real. The training is taught by Jacques Verduin, founding director of Insight Prison Project, who has 15 years of experience working in prisons. A former life-sentenced prisoner will assist in teaching the workshop.
Dates & Registration
Friday, July 15 (9-4), Saturday, July 16 (9 4)
Cost: $200
Where: San Rafael
To register, contact: Jacques Verduin @ (415) 488-1348 or
jverduin@comcast.net
